Article: Securing Autonomous AI Agents on Kubernetes: Trust Boundaries, Secrets, and Observability for a New Category of Cloud Workload (opens in new tab)

Autonomous AI agents break Kubernetes security assumptions with dynamic dependencies, multi-domain credentials, and unpredictable resource use. This article covers production-tested patterns: Job-based isolation, Vault for scoped short-lived credentials, a four-phase trust model from shadow mode to autonomous operation, and observability for non-deterministic reasoning cycles. By Nik Kale